01 December 2010

THE WAR IN WALES THAT NEVER WAS - WW II - WHAT IF HITLER's INVASION HAD MADE IT AND OCCUPIED BRITAIN - WHAT OF WALES THEN?



That the UK Government thought this a serious matter can be seen in the lengths they went to in setting up of the 'Home Guard' and the final third line defence in form of preparing a secret underground Resistence Movement. None of this became needed but nevertheless was seriously organised and made ready for such eventuality, two things have prompted me to do this post, the one coming across a reprint of the the WW II Home Guard Manual by Tempus Publication:

  1. 9780752438870 - Home Guard Manual 1941 ByTempus Publishing UK ...

    Find ISBN 9780752438870 at a great price! Biblio.co.uk has by Tempus Publishing UK, where you can choose from over millions of used, rare, and out-of-print ...
    biblio.co.uk/9780752438870/used - Cached

  2. Home Guard Manual 1941: Amazon.co.uk: Campbell McCutcheon: Books

    Hardcover: 240 pages; Publisher: Tempus Publishing Ltd; ...Home Guard Manual 1941 by Campbell McCutcheon Hardcover 4.7 out of 5 stars (3) ...
    www.amazon.co.uk › ... › Civil Defence - Cached - Similar


Secondly, my attention has been drawn to a book by Owen Shears now being made into a film, an Alternative History What If The Germans had invaded the British Isles:

  1. Resistance by Owen Sheers - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists






    7 Jan 2007 ... In Resistance Owen Sheers re-writes the history of World War Two. .... I've read a couple of other books set during WWII with German soldiers who were .... Imagine a WWII scenario where the invasion of Normandy failed. ...
    www.goodreads.com/book/show/945882.Resistance - Cached - Similar

  2. Resistance - Owen Sheers Poet and Author

    “What if the D-Day landings had failed and a successful German invasion of Britain had followed? Owen Sheers takes real contingency plans for this ...
    www.owensheers.co.uk/fiction.htm - Cached - Similar

  3. Amazon.com: Resistance: A Novel (9780385522106): Owen Sheers: Books

    –New York Times Book Review “Owen Sheers' Resistance is a literary novel, but it's also ....After failed D-Day landings the German invasion begins in earnest on .... and after WWII rather than during WWI, this novel reminds me of Lewis ...
    www.amazon.com › Books › History › Europe › Wales - Cached - Similar


    See my Assyrian Rod, if you wish to develope on above further:

    The ASSYRIAN ROD.

    This inspires me to write a fictional futuristic alternate Welsh history story, titled 'The Assyrian Rod' which will be developed in this blog,also given ...
    assyrianrod.blogspot.com/ - Cached - Similar

    Also Consider the below:

    Axis History Forum • View topic - Welsh Nationalists and WW2

    ...during WW2 the German Abwehr snapped up offers by renegade Welsh ... The state's lenient view towards Welsh nationalism was evident in 1944 .... You can also support the site by buying books and other items through the AHF Bookstore ...
    forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=114&t...p... - Cached

    In this connection also see Swiss Army book Total Resistence:


    1. Amazon.com: Total Resistance (9780873640213): H. Von Dach: Books ...

      4.0 out of 5 stars Good for civilian resistance, February 23, 2008 ... In his landmark book,Total Resistance, the Swiss Army Guide to Guerrila Warfare and Underground .... The Myth of National Defense by Hans-Hermann Hoppe on page 390, ...
      www.amazon.com › ... › History › Americas › Mexico - Cached - Similar

    2. Total Resistance - Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare and ...

      resistance, Guerilla, scribd, guerilla warfare, download total, warfare pdf, underground, operations, resistance swiss, army guide ...
      www.scribd.com/.../Total-Resistance-Swiss-Army-Guide-to-Guerrilla-Warfare-and-Underground-Operationspart-2 - Cached - Similar
    There is however a contemporary serious side to this, if and when Wales becomes Independant do we seek to establish a Welsh Army, this matter has from time to time been discussed by Welsh Nationalists, inc WRM I and Plaid Cymru. However generally Cultural Welsh Nationalism is overwealmed by a sense of pacifism, see below link:





    1. Press releases of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Wales

      The British Army agreed to the request from the Fellowship of Reconciliation in ... "Our aim as a Fellowship must be to campaign for the demilitarisation of Wales by .... The Churches inWales have made a clear declaration against the ...
      www.cymdeithasycymod.org.uk/press.htm - Cached - Similar
    1. However, there is a small radical Patriotic Fringe that has played around with the idea of going ahead and establishing a Welsh Army, I am of course talking about the FWA still today a myth amidst 'militantly minded' Welsh Nationalists, search FWA on web and see links below:

    1. Free Wales Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      The FWA was rumoured to have received arms from the Official IRA (OIRA), although Evans... "Dennis Coslett: Dashing commandant of the Free Wales Army". ...

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Wales_Army - Cached - Similar

    Alternative Welsh Nationalist Archive: THE FREE WALES ARMYARRESTS ...

    25 Feb 2009 ... THE FREE WALES ARMY ARRESTS 26 - 02 - 1969, 40 years on some ... I think that the PF history has been too much in the shade of the FWA ...
    awnms.blogspot.com/.../free-wales-army-arrests-26-02-1969-40.html - Cached - Similar

    However, lets not go back down that road but more examine the need one day to establish in Wales a Welsh Army or as I prefer a National Volunteer Defence Force based on the Territorial Army more or less an 'Home Guard'. I cannot see a situation where Wales would be invaded but if Independent might have to contribute to U.N. needs and requirements, in a capacity as may be required. I do not think Wales should shirk international responsibilities here but not as allies in aggressive wars but more as military aid in defence of oppressed peoples or even in disaster relief. Think on it and to assist further in D&D see below links:


    1. Home Guard (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Glamorgan Home Guard Living History Group Living History Group in South Wales; Home Guard operating in Bures, Suffolk · United Kingdom Home Guard Web Page ...
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom) -Cached - Similar


      1. http://www.home-guard.org.uk » The Home Guard - History of the ...

        The Home Guard - History of the Home Guard 1940 to 1944 + Chatham Home Guard Living History Unit.
        www.home-guard.org.uk/ - Cached - Similar

    1. BBC - South East Wales War Stories - View fromthe Home Front

      1. Fred Simon, a railwayman from Newport who served in the Home Guard in south Wales, kept a diary during World War Two. Here are some selected entries.

    1. www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/.../fredsimon.shtml -Cached - Similar

Merioneth Home Guard and TA Association Records - Archives Wales:


Name of creator(s): Local Defence Volunteer Force, NorthWales Area; Merioneth Home Guard; Merioneth and Montgomery Territorial and Auxiliary Forces ...


  1. www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id... -Cached
  2. [PPT] 

    The Home Guard and Fire Service.ppt - Croeso i GCaD Cymru ...

    File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - View as HTML
    Griffithstown Home Guard, South Wales. Picture courtesy of Torfaen Museum Trust. Can you note any similarities between the Griffithstown and Aberdare Home ...
    www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/history/wwii/guard_fire.ppt

    1. Kenfig / Cynffig - The Complete History :: War Years || Home Guard

      1. www.kenfig.org.uk An important part of Wales documentary Heritage Identified by ... The Home Guard unit in Porthcawl was No.1 Platoon "A" Company of the ...
    1. www.kenfig.org.uk/waryears/homeguard - Cached

  4. Britain's Home Front in World War Two

    Weapons of the Home Guard · Fortress Britain · Tiny Ironside · Zero Option · The Home Front · The Channel Islands and World War Two ...
    www.historylearningsite.co.uk › World War Two -Cached - Similar

    Gethin Gruffydd.
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